Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-03-22
TIP.TOP AND Big CANVAS.
TWO LEADING GOLD BELT NINE
PROPERTIES.

The Tip-top shows goo Feet Of Ore,
and Probably Has 400 Feet - The
Big Camas q Huge Vein that VIII
Pay to Mill from the Grass Roots
Good News for the Stockholders.
Jos. Y. Smith, foreman of the Tip
top mine, came in from the Gold Belt
with Captain Buzzo, this morning,
having left there about 6 O'Clock with
a two-horse team. They were only
three hours making the trip.
Mr.. Smith was interviewed by
TIMES reporter. He said that he did
not care for any newspaper notoriety,
but that the TIMES had done 80 we'll
by the Gold Belt that be would mako
an exception in its favor. The Tip.
top is good mine, and is showing
better and better. They are now in
$50 feet east from the bottom of the
shaft, and have never been out of ore
from the grass roots. In the breast of
the drift it looks better than any
where else. The ore is good-cer-
tainly averages $50 to $40 per ton,
but cannot say how much more.
There is fully 8 to 10 feet of solid ore
all along, but the vein was only cross
cut in one place. and there it was 16
feet wide. As the groupings are Is
to 80 feet wide Mr.. Smith thinks the
vein must be fully as wide in depth,
and probably wider. The length OF
ore he cannot state, but the drifts al.
ready show fully 200 feet. and he
thinks that the ore-body must be 4OC
feet long. He looks for it to be that
long, and so feet wide. He could
put 2o-stamp mill on the property
to-day, and make it pay big, while de.
veloping mine that would justify 4(
or SO stamps being put in.
THE BIG CANVAS AND FRACTION.
This property only requires little
development to be shown up. Nv.
looked over that ground number o
times, said Mr.. Smith, and, so hell
me God, can take $4,000 or $4,000
and make a big mine of it! 1 hav.
gone over the groupings and did no
: pick up piece that went less thai
$l1; average $15 to $50. I can picl
) up tons aud tons of rock from tb
, groupings, ship it to q mill and wor
it to a big margin. The cropping
) are immense and seem to indicate
= big mine in depth. When ore bios
> SONS at the surface you can general
depend on finding much more below
; There is no getting over this fact
: The No. 2 is good mine, but tn
Camas No. l is better one. Nov
= sir, l don't own a foot of ground o
the Gold Belt and am not intereste
. there at all, except that Mr.. Groes
beck placed me there as foreman, bu
I tell you-and l wrote this to m
friends in Salt Lake all winter-tha
[ don't see how any money can b
lost on No. / under proper manage
. ment. l wrote to my friends that
could sink two 10O-foot shafts in tn
groupings, and make money even wit
r only 10-stamp mill. l have no money
a but if had, hard as l work for it,
), would not hesitate a minute in put
!. ting it in No. l. The people VIII
), bought stock in No. l will realize
It profit of 200 to 400 per cent,
g short time after the mill starts on il
l. ore, if the property is run ecoDon
!! ically as it should be.
SHOW about last falls work." aske
the reporter.
b at wasn't in the vein at ALL" re
q piled Mr.. Smith; land don't indica,
i anything. When you get ore 20
e should stay with it-not run off som'
# where else-may be half a mile ava
,r to hunt for more"